The service life of a hard good like that was not defined at the time they bought it. Nobody told them it would be abandoned in a few years. When you buy a car, it’s your car for as long as you can keep it running. It doesn’t drop dead at the end of its depreciation schedule.
No, it’s not English semantics they are using here. It’s DNA semantics. They looked for DNA markers and gene expression to define what is head or tail of various animals, and found that most of the starfish expressed those similarly to the head of other animals.
Just because big tech does these things doesn’t mean we should remove any pretense of rules against it. If they want something a little guy has, they should buy it, not take it for free.
That’s assuming the villain who is trying to deny you information by the blindfold and earplugs was dumb enough to put them close together that a spit would reach a neighbor.
But 9 of those people can’t affect the outcome either way. So the chance that you’re on the main track and can affect the outcome in a positive way by flipping the switch is only 1/15.